Games Game Genres Puzzle

Puzzle

A genre of games that is based on classic tabletop logic games, puzzles, etc. To complete levels, players are required to "flex their brains." Additionally, speed, accuracy, and good reaction are often needed. Such games include both classic puzzles and more complex projects in terms of gameplay (mind-breaker games).

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Best Games in the Puzzle genre of 2006

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Shadow of the Colossus

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure

October 18, 2005

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 91/100

Shadow of the Colossus — action-adventure game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. You take on the role of a hero named Wander, who must go through...

Super Mario 64

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Mario Game

June 23, 1996

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Super Mario 64 — One day, Princess Peach called Mario to her castle with an offer to eat the cake she baked and drink tea. Mario arrives at the castle and...

Tomb Raider: Legend

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure

April 7, 2006

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This third-person action-adventure follows Lara Croft as she travels the world in search of one of history’s greatest artifacts. The quest brings figures from her...

Still Life

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Detective

April 14, 2005

Players: 9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Still Life is a detective adventure with quest elements and mini-games about an FBI employee who is investigating a series of bloody murders from the authors of...

Syberia

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click

May 30, 2002

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Syberia is a legendary adventure puzzle game with a third-person view. The game tells the story of Kate Walker, a lawyer from New York, who goes on a deal to sell...

Zuma Deluxe

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row), Arcade

December 8, 2003

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Zuma Deluxe is a fun logic puzzle game with match-3 elements and a top-down view. Simple and interesting gameplay awaits you. While controlling the frog, you need...

Psychonauts

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Comedy, Adventure

April 19, 2005

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Psychonauts is an action-adventure platformer with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The plot follows a young special agent named Raz, who learns to use his...

ICO

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

September 24, 2001

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 90/100

This action-adventure game with platforming and puzzle elements follows Ico, a boy born with horns who is taken to a mysterious castle to be sacrificed in the...

Paradise (2006)

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

April 21, 2006

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 57/100

Paradise (2006) - an exciting point and click adventure with lots of puzzles from the creators of the Syberia series. The events of the game will take you to the...

Tomb Raider: Anniversary

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

June 1, 2006

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Tomb Raider: Anniversary is an anniversary edition of the adventure saga about the legendary tomb raider Lara Croft. The game is based on the very first part of the...

Longest Journey

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Cyberpunk, Point & Click

December 3, 1999

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Longest Journey is a stunning graphic adventure where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes. Begin an exciting...

Star Wars: Lethal Alliance

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Star Wars

December 7, 2006

Metacritic: 59/100

Star Wars: Lethal Alliance is an action-adventure game dedicated to the adventures of the Twi'lek mercenary Rihanna Saren and the droid Zio. The events of the game...

Feeding Frenzy

Action, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle

March 17, 2004

Metacritic: 65/100

This arcade action game puts the player in control of a fish that hunts smaller sea creatures and evades larger ones. The more it eats, the bigger it grows...

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

Action, Slasher, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Parkour

December 1, 2005

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is a continuation of the dynamic action slasher with a third-person view, which is the third part of The Sands of Time series...

Prey 2006

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

July 11, 2006

Players: 8/10

Prey is an adventure shooter with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will tell the story of a young mechanic, Tommy, from the Cherokee...

Luxor 2

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Puzzle, Casual game

October 10, 2006

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 49/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Set among the pyramids of ancient Egypt, this arcade puzzle game spans 88 levels. The player controls a winged scarab, firing at approaching magical spheres and...

Myst (1993)

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click

September 24, 1993

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 43/100

Myst (1993) — point and click adventure puzzle game. You are about to travel to an island world shrouded in mysteries, where every stone, every piece of...

Okami

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

April 20, 2006

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 92/100

Okami — atmospheric adventure action game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu...

Tomb Raider 4: The Last Revelation

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure

November 15, 1999

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 84/100

This action-adventure with platforming elements follows Lara Croft as she accidentally frees the god Set from a secret tomb in Egypt. To stop him and prevent the...

Diamond Rush

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

March 12, 2009

Players: 10/10

Mario Bros.

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Mario Game

September 9, 1983

Players: 8/10

Mario Bros. is a third-person action game with a mixture of platforming and puzzles from the developers of Nintendo Co., Ltd.. The main publisher of the game is...

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Legend of Zelda

November 19, 2006

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 96/100

This fantasy action game with puzzles follows Link, a young farm boy who must awaken the hero and animal within him as an evil darkness enshrouds Hyrule. In the...

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Action, Top-down view, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Legend of Zelda

November 21, 1991

Players: 9/10

This action-adventure game follows Link on a journey through the fantasy world of Hyrule, where he must defeat the demon king Ganon and rescue the descendants of...

Ape Escape: On the Loose

Action, Stealth, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Sports game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Snowboard, Table tennis, Adventure

March 17, 2005

Metacritic: 66/100

This adventure platformer follows a pursuit through time as escaped monkeys threaten to alter history. After the mischievous monkey Specter takes a professor’s...

Neighbours from Hell: Revenge Is a Sweet Game

Puzzle, Logic, Side view

June 20, 2003

Players: 8.1/10

How to Get Your Neighbor: Sweet Revenge is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. You have to try on the role of the simple Woody to take revenge on your evil...

Eets

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Casual game

March 27, 2006

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This puzzle platformer combines character movement with physics-based challenges. The player helps Eets overcome obstacles by using objects and interactions in the...

Mortal Kombat: Deception

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Platformer, Third-person view, Isometric, Puzzle, Chess game

October 4, 2004

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 77/100

A fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series, featuring matches that combine hand-to-hand combat with weapon use. Mortal Kombat: Deception includes secret and...

Metroid Prime: Hunters

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Cyberpunk

March 20, 2006

Metacritic: 85/100

A first-person science-fiction shooter in the Metroid series, Metroid Prime: Hunters pits Samus Aran against six other bounty hunters competing for the title of the...

Myst 3: Exile

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game

May 7, 2001

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This first-person adventure puzzle game continues the story of Myst, where books open portals to other worlds and past conflicts shape the present. The player...

Tomb Raider: Chronicles

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure

November 21, 2000

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 60/100

An action-adventure with platforming and puzzle elements follows four previously untold adventures of Lara Croft in search of ancient artifacts. The settings...

Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning aren't so Frightening

Adventure, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Point & Click

October 2, 1998

Steam: 98/100

This puzzle adventure follows Sam, the world’s youngest superhero, as he travels to a weather factory in the sky to overcome his fear of thunderstorms. He...

Go! Sudoku

Strategy, Educational game (Education), Top-down view, Puzzle

December 2, 2005

Metacritic: 63/100

This Sudoku puzzle game challenges players to fill a grid with the numbers 1 to 9, ensuring that each row, column and 3×3 box contains every number exactly once. It...

Astropop

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game

March 30, 2004

Players: 10/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A space-themed puzzle game in which the player uses a powerful magnet to move blocks and match those of the same color. The blocks descend toward the spaceship and...

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Simulation, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

September 15, 2005

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — In the first case of the game, Phoenix Wright, under the watchful eye of Mia Fey, successfully defends his first client and...

Columns

Strategy, In real time, Puzzle, Casual game

June 30, 1990

Steam: 76/100

Columns is a puzzle game set in ancient Phoenicia, where colorful jewels fall from the top of the playfield. The player matches three or more jewels of the same...

Cake Mania

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle

February 28, 2006

Metacritic: 55/100

This arcade game follows the fast-paced work of a bakery, where customers’ orders must be handled in time. The player bakes cakes, ices and decorates them, then...

Æon Flux

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic

November 15, 2005

Metacritic: 68/100

Set 400 years in the future, this third-person action game takes place after a disease has wiped out most of Earth’s population. The only protected settlement is...

Destroy All Humans! 2

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

October 17, 2006

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Destroy All Humans! 2 — This game takes place in 1969 (10 years after the original game) and begins with a Soviet KGB meeting with a slideshow showing that...

Donkey Kong Junior

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

July 15, 1983

Players: 6/10

Donkey Kong Junior is a third-person action game with platforming and puzzle elements from developers from the Nintendo Co., Ltd. studio. The game is published by...

Lula 3D

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adult game

June 22, 2005

Players: 7.6/10

Lula 3D is a continuation of the erotic adventure now in full 3D. Lula, a seductive busty blonde and part-time producer of an erotic film, finds herself in a...

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